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CP leader since 1998 announces he will retire at the first meeting of the new executive committee
DAVID CAMERON’S underhand attempts to scrap transparency laws and stifle opposition makes Margaret Thatcher’s legacy look liberal, Labour deputy leader Tom Watson said yesterday.
Mr Watson savaged the Prime Minister’s “fundamentally illiberal” assault on a raft of rights used to keep the government in check.
In a speech at London’s Southbank Centre, the civil rights champion demanded the government drop its “sinister” review of the Freedom of Information Act.
The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY
JOHN GREEN has doubts about the efficacy of the Freedom of Information Act, once trumpeted by Tony Blair
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
